Hypercholesterolemia is one of the main factors which increase risks of the vascular diseases leading to paralysis, blindness, and even lethal outcome. At first sight the increased content of the cholesterol in the blood does not pose a threat to the body but in fact it is not true. A wall of the healthy unaffected vessels is smooth. However, with age atherosclerosis plaques usually appear on the vessels walls which consist of cholesterol, calcium, and fibrous tissue. These plaques gradually narrow lumen of the arteries and thus causing a disorder of the bloodstream. By the certain level of the vessel stenosis the signs of one or another disease begin to appear depending on the site of the atherosclerosis plaques.

Causes of hypercholesterolemia:
- increased content of the cholesterol in the foodstuff
- neuroses, diseases of the central nervous system
- hormonal disorders

The main method of the hypercholesterolemia treatment is a diet. A purpose of the diet is a reduction of the cholesterol level in the body and thus the reduction of the amount of this component in the blood. In addition to the dies medical products are used which also split the plaques in the vessels and remove the excess cholesterol from the body.

In the purpose of the hypercholesterolemia prophylaxis it is better to refuse from smoking, fat food and start having a healthy life-style.